<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi, David,<div><br></div><div>Is there a list of the books that have been chosen for past meetings? So i don’t suggest numerous new books all of which have been done already?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Stan.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 7, 2024, at 1:26 PM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tracy,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">You weren't at the April 5th meeting where we discussed the management of Meetup, which Louis was doing on his own. Others may take it over, but Meetup is *not* in any way official.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Meetup was and is an "extra". The only official reading group calendar is on the <a href="http://nesfa.org">nesfa.org</a> site. All future events are in the calendar (labeled "Upcoming Events" on the lower left).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I just updated the "Latest News" on the lower right to note our *next* reading group meeting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 5:56 PM Tracy Marks <<a href="mailto:tracy@windweaver.com">tracy@windweaver.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>I recommend The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins. High ratings.<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transition-Nick-Fuller-Googins/dp/1668010755/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transition-Nick-Fuller-Googins/dp/1668010755/</a><br>(I think one of the other sci fi groups read it recently but I missed out on that)</p>
<p>It's post-dystopian. The Antarctica ice shelf collapsed a few decades earlier, and the coasts were destroyed (one can boat across Central Park by boat but all Manhattan is a disaster area). The main characters live in a thriving new metropolis in Greenland. Groups of people are involved in putting the world back together, and everyone is supposed to do one or two weesk of public service each year, physical work in the areas of the world that are nearly destroyed. One of the characters is a vigilante, actively involved in killing the "Climate Criminals" who contributed to the environmental disasters. Excellent world-building. Very satisfying to read a futuristic book that is beyond dystopian but not quite utopian.</p>
<p>FROM THE NY TIMES<br><span>Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the climate crisis. But following the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, Emi’s mother, Kristina, disappears as a possible suspect, and Emi’s illusions of utopia are shattered. A determined Emi and her father, Larch, journey from their home in Nuuk, Greenland to New York City, now a lightly populated storm-surge outpost built from the ruins of the former metropolis. But they aren’t the only ones looking for Kristina.<br><br>Thirty years earlier, Larch first came to New York with a team of volunteers to save the city from rising waters and torrential storms. Kristina was on the frontlines of a different battle, fighting massive wildfires that ravaged the western United States. They became part of a movement that changed the world—The Great Transition—forging a new society and finding each other in process.<br><br>Alternating between Emi’s desperate search for her mother and a meticulously rendered, heart-stopping account of her parents’ experiences during The Great Transition, this novel beautifully shows how our actions today determine our fate tomorrow. A triumphant debut, </span><span>The Great Transition</span><span> is “a book for the present and the future—read this and you will be changed” (Michelle Min Sterling, </span><span>New York Times</span><span> bestselling author).:</span></p>
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<p>On another note, I always check meetup for book club meetings and don't see any listing for April or May or beyond........It would be helpful for book club meetings to be posted for at least three months in advance.</p>
<p>Tracy</p>
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